Finished this game in about 10 turns. The Americans have very little units and can basically only try to hold on to the village in the center of map 10. The Germans also start with a low number of troops, but I got about 2-3 units per turn in reserves. The StuG showed up by turn 10, but before he hit the table, the game was already decided. Some of my troops circled the village from the eastside, and took positions south of the village. The other issue showed now: even though the American player sent out troops to take these on and win the game by making me lose 6 steps, I could almost be sure to have the first action, allowing me to use the woods to remain out of sight and evade opportunity fire. I did get lucky though, and while I planned to move reserves into the village from the west while laying down suppressive fire from the forest to the northeast, this turned out too succesful: 2-11-12 rolls on direct fire made mincemeat of the US infantry and HMG...

Not a bad mission, but not a lot of fun for the US player.

The Germans have a fairly overwhelming force to bring to bear again this scenario. The OBA can do most of the work here due to the generous time limit. The scenario plays like most of those before it in BotB.

The Americans start mostly on the southern board and must rush to the town on board 10 on turn 1 to set up a defense. The Germans get to advance slowly, while visibility is reduced in the early game, and skirmish with their artillery and MGs until a strong body of reinforcements arrive. Once they do, they seemingly would not have much difficulty overcoming the American forces in the town.

Once significant forces arrive for the Germans, including their Wirbelwind, they move in and the American defense folded under the pressure. This seemingly meets the historical outcome of the scenario. Normally I would give this one a 2 due to the imbalanced nature of it, but the die rolls favored the Americans a bit, just enough to make it interesting for a while, and i knocked it up one due to the fun factor of my play.

Germans win.

I kinda feel for those poor troops. The Americans hold on for around 5 turns.... then things kinda get away. Which is what I expected looking over the scenario. For an exercise in futility this is the one for you... the Americans, of course.

*Since Battle of The Bulge 2: Elsenborn Ridge came along, I haven’t played many of the scenarios from the first Bulge and it’s been good long time, that I missed it and found a large list of scenarios I still want to play from it. I picked Weiler even though I thought it looked unbalanced but still very interesting. There are two different German Victory Condition Options; 1 or 2. Option #1 looked more challenging for the Germans but option #2 as written didn’t make too much sense and looked way too easy for the Germans, so I picked Option #1 for the game.

*The Germans must control all the town hexes on both map boards 10 & 11 without losing more then 6 steps of units. The Germans also have about a 4 to 1 advantage counting reinforcements that come on board with different dice rolls throughout the game. They also have a large amount of off-board Artillery. The American have nothing but a road bump on map 10 and a little bit more on map 11 but not much more. But still this looks fun to play!

*The Germans steam rolled the American infantry on map 10 and large amounts of their reinforcements came in early. They were then able to focus their full attention to map 11 and the one shot the Americans 57mm AT gun had at some German armor, failed to penetrate. The Germans brought their full force to bare on the town hexes on board #11. Never let a Wirbelwind accompanied by a few Infantry units get adjacent to your Infantry as the direct fire total is a real killer, no pun intended. The Germans were easily able to clear all the town hexes for a clear victory. I believe this scenario favors the Germans but hey, it was fun to move a Wirbelwind unit around and it’s a fun to play.

This is a real snoozer of a scenario. The Americans have almost no force, an initiative disadvantage, no OBA and a lot of ground to defend. The Germans don't start with much, however they get a lot of reinforcements. And there just aren't enough Americans to stop them or, really, make it interesting. In my play, the Americans committed more troops to board 10 to stem the tide. A few Germans tried to bypass the town and got shot up by an HMG for their troubles (mirroring history). The main force, with the aid of a StuGIII, pressed the attack on the town on board 10 and basically through overwhelming firepower were able to kill a step and disrupt a unit and then move in for an assault kill. Two more American platoons tried to stem the tide, and the Germans either went around them or just swarmed them. I don't see how the Americans have any real shot in this scenario.

I went with the Option 1 victory conditions, which I think are easier. I don't think the Germans would have had much trouble with option 2, either. There are just too many of them and the Americans have to defend against both victory choices.

This was not much of a fight. Either German VC option would make Wahlhausen the place to be, so off the Germans went out of Weiler and onto board 10 towards Wahlhausen. With low visibility rolls they could do this without being harassed by German arty. The American troops were quickly surrounded and, with the help of heavy artillery and the Stug, quickly eliminated. Almost 2/3 of the German troops were on board by turn 8. The Wirblewind didn't even make it on board. All American steps were destroyed by turn 12. The Germans lost 1 step and two leaders. One of them by a sniper.